VITAL STATISTICS
Age: 53.
Where born: Logan.
Family: Wife Gayle Dunford Wilson and children Bentley, Heidi, Cameron, Amy, Ginny and Katie.
Education: Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctor, University of Utah.
Primary products: Legal services.
Primary markets: Full range of legal services in the Intermountain region.
Number of employees: 160.
PERSONALITY PROFILE
First "real" job: Grain bagger and grease monkey on thrashing machine.
Management style: Set goals, delegate responsibility; expect follow through; allow others to learn from their mistakes.
Strategy for success: Work hard; do it now; when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A memorable failure: Inability to train an expensive horse into a predictable saddle horse.
Heroes: Lech Walesa, Joseph Jones (senior partner when I joined our firm 25 years ago).
Leisure time and hobbies: Second home in Midway, my horses and cane and walking stick collection.
Favorite books and movies: Books: "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck and "My Life in Court" by Louis Nizer. Movies: "Dr. Zhivago" and "Empire of the Sun."